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by patcon 6y ago
As i understand, there's some evidence that visual social networks are preferred by females, e.g. pinterest. I recall a hypothesis that it has to do with women (or rather, neurotypes bell-curving around female gender identification) te
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by patcon 6y ago
Maybe it's different with a "nation". If a Frech national comes and builds some fences in Maine that stay for 10 years, can he claim they've moved the border of France? A little absurd, yes, but I'm not sure adverse
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by patcon 6y ago
It's not quiiiite as polished, but I like this website a bit more: https://native-land.ca/ Informationally, it has more layers, including treaties, languages and territories. It's stewarded by a dedicated [and now
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by patcon 6y ago
thanks dang. Was thinking about y'all when I added that "<3" edit. I appreciate you. > What made you think there was? I recalled a post way back when trump was voted in, asking the community not to speak about politics.
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by patcon 6y ago
Aw thanks! Yeah, I was a moderator on one of the first university-run online forums, and it was so stressful and difficult...! All the first-year students just spoke off-the-cuff, but "monitoring" all that speech was SO challengin
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by patcon 6y ago
I often take the perspective (with my loosely anti-capitalist sympathies, admittedly) that the mechanistic forces of capitalism aren't "bad", but simply aren't curious about certain things in the world. The system is jus
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by patcon 6y ago
Chain of events: I was tempted to try a respectful reply with substance, but then realized I wouldn't be allowed to discuss this here, due to moderator preference for "not talking politics". I was then [regrettably] tempted t
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by patcon 6y ago
Dark Crystal is another neat POC Shamir Secret Sharing tool, built by some folks involved in SSB[0] and Loomio [1] https://darkcrystal.pw/ [0]: https://scuttlebutt.nz/ [1]: https://www.loomio.org
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by patcon 6y ago
I don't know about this Trimble outfit, but many of my friends and relationship partners have found value in similar tests like enneagrams. In my experience, they do help distill relationship dynamics into a smaller set of more underst
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by patcon 6y ago
My belief is that Telegram excels at security theatre
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by patcon 6y ago
it's their negotiation of the bare minimum invasive activity they've decided they must do to give us some threshold of network effects in an otherwise anonymous service
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by patcon 6y ago
This is def speculation on my part, but I've got a hunch that these "good manager" types often learn this wonderful communication style from working with ppl in-person -- high touch communication spaces are where ppl learn an
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by patcon 6y ago
Through a Gender Lens: Learning Usage Patterns of Emojis from Large-Scale Android Users https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05546.pdf > Gender difference is always an important research topic in sociological and psychologica
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by patcon 6y ago
I'm hopefully that remote presence tech (VR, etc) will really step up to make up for all the subtle things we lose when we work across the digital divide <3 Right now, I find WFH pretty tough, and in my experience so far, I get mark
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by patcon 6y ago
YES. It's about which realities are in the "adjacent possible", not about the personality of any entity in this "tick" of the timeline. We should avoid realities that make a "dystopic" reality more adjacen
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by patcon 6y ago
A quick Google seems to indicate that the title is fair: From news article: > Up to 30% of patients who are seriously ill with coronavirus are developing dangerous blood clots, according to medical experts. (One doctor anecdotally thinks
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by patcon 6y ago
ah good point, thx :)
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by patcon 6y ago
Interesting. Maybe it's because we can stand to be materialist about self, but less so about others? To be reductive about self is maybe humbling, but to be reductive of others would be unconducive to operating in the world with those
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by patcon 6y ago
Agreed. The parent description makes me think of how people used to talk about "justice" before. It was at the whim of others, and only the powerful had certain access to it. But at some point, we nationalized the carriage of just
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by patcon 7y ago
my assumption is that any degree is a marker of perseverance to people hiring. If you're hiring for an admin role, would you rather the person with the HS diploma or with the arts degree? I'm reluctant to admit I'd probably b
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by patcon 7y ago
Ah, of course. We create a new type of [patentable] ubiquitous technology and sell our way out of this. Leave it to the entrepreneurial mind... Sorry for being cynical -- I just feel suspicious of this particular tired mindset to addressing
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by patcon 7y ago
heh, normally how these friendly call-response threads work is someone either yes-and's the attempt [1] or ignores/downvotes it. Just because we're on HN, that doesn't mean puns need to be critiqued -- even if they are a
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by patcon 7y ago
It seems odd to consider "the commons" as a competitor... feels petty, like: "If we can't have it, then you can't even gift it to the human collective."
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by patcon 7y ago
Ah heck, I was reading another comment by you in another thread just now, and admittedly not thinking kind thoughts about it... so I'm glad to have been humbled by finding this prior reply, reminding me not to make snap judgements of o
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by patcon 7y ago
> People who want to work remotely are going to want everyone to work remote so that they aren't disadvantaged when it comes to those things, but then we are left with the problem of one group forcing their way of working on the oth
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by patcon 7y ago
my read was the same as yours :)
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by patcon 7y ago
Oh jeez, it's sanity-inducing to hear someone say all this. 100% agree. I'm jealous of all these people who rave about remote work. But every time I've tried working away from my coworkers, I've felt like a massive failu
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by patcon 7y ago
I've heard from friends in large nonprofits that they're expecting the funding landscape to change dramatically. Funders are potentially looking in very different directions now, presumably. Or at least nonprofits have to worry th
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by patcon 7y ago
Re: Complexity science. I highly recommend you always perk your ears up when someone mentions the Santa Fe Institute! Cormac McCarthy hangs out with that crowd: https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/cormac-mccar
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by patcon 7y ago
Roam does the same thing, so they may have just copied what was already established. I'm sure there's solid rationale on Roam's side fwiw, just don't know it :)

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